Pieces that may be from wetsuit, surfboard found after surfer attacked by shark off South Australia

They need to put zebra stripes on their surf boards and wetsuits.

@Fredrik

What would that do? Work as a shark detterant?

VrethToday  04:23 pm JST

What would that do? Work as a shark detterant?

"According to the Shark Mitigation Systems, an Australian company that makes a variety of shark deterring products, their patterns do indeed work. When they put a regular black suit in the water beside one of their wetsuits, the regular one took 90 seconds to get attacked while it took about 5 minutes before a shark hit the patterned one."

So you can get 3 minutes and 30 seconds more of being scared Sless.

Bang sticks as standard surfing equipment

What can we do ?

Eradicate all dangerous Sharks - then what ?

That West Coast area of Sth Australia is perhaps the greatest haunt for sharks anywhere in the world - esp great whites.

Don't hear too much about it because it's a very large area and sparsely populated.

Visited a number of times in my younger days and can be quite spooky sitting on a board knowing what could be around.

But you'll never stop surfers going there to experience amazing waves in wilderness settings.

It's a risky place.

Looks like the shark ate him

Well, a school teacher not even knowing about dangers of sharks, that’s telling more than one story.

Two stories have been running in parallel these last few days, at either ends of the earth. This guy who has disappeared, presumedly eaten by a shark, and the guy in Hokkaido who disappeared while fishing, presumedly eaten by a bear.

@nandakandamanda In other words man is usually the hunter in theses cases it looks like the hunter is being capture by the game!

Two stories have been running in parallel these last few days, at either ends of the earth. This guy who has disappeared, presumably eaten by a shark, and the guy in Hokkaido who disappeared while fishing, presumably eaten by a bear.

Being eaten by a shark or bear is certainly no fun but statistically you have a greater chance of being killed by a stinging insect.

I know there's a lot risk that comes with sports such as skydiving, racecar driving, motocross, etc., but to take on the risk of getting bit in half by shark in what are known to be "shark infested waters" is a whole different level...

Great Whites became protected species back in early 2000s . Since then there has been large increase in numbers also helped by the rebound in the whale populations migrating north for the summer which they feed on. From May to October now there is an increased risk of shark human interactions.